Owner-operator Kenny Capell is bringing awareness to the issue of truckers being awoken by law enforcement while sleeping in the sleeper berth, reports Overdrive.
His arrest on obstruction of justice charges followed two inspections from the same officer at the northbound scale on I-75 in Ringgold, Ga., with Capell being awoken in the sleeper berth of his and wife Nikki’s quite recognizable 2003 Freightliner Columbia both times.
In the first case, he says, he was told not to log his official return to duty with the inspection, in spite of the fact that his name was on the inspection report. (The interruption to the load the couple was under caused a later service failure.)
